Top 1200 Actors And Acting Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Are there differences between black actors’ opportunities and white actors’ opportunities? Yes, there are. It’s been said.

I think that's one thing about the entertainment industry: Athletes want to be actors, and musicians want to be actors, so it all kind of mixes nice together.

I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

I found American actors quite scary because they're brilliant actors and brilliantly funny, and they never stopped once you wound them up... off they went and they just deliver fantastic stuff.

I like to spend time with senior actors before going on set to break the ice. On set, I just look at them as co-actors.

I try to think of acting in terms of thinking and doing. People think of it as, "Oh, let's get inside this guy." They think that acting is being, or feeling, or emoting. It's as much doing. One of the first things you do as an acting student is ask, "Can you say words and do a task at the same time, like sweep a floor?" You get to watch the human condition, and there's always a "doing" aspect of it. This couple, they're carrying backpacks, where are they going? Students? Or are they carrying instruments? It stimulates the imagination. So acting is doing ... and I forget how we got off on that.

The thing I was up against in documentary films - was trying to get non-actors to convincingly play themselves in a way I'd come to know before the camera started rolling. And many non-actors can't do that convincingly, even if they just have to play themselves - they can't be naturalistic. And I would always want to recreate something I'd witnessed them do or say, and it just would be incredibly difficult because of the fact they weren't actors.

I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.

Several southern actors are coming to Mumbai. Likewise, many Bollywood actors are appearing down South or borrowing ideas from southern films.

Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

For my senior year, I'm home schooled. It's working well with the acting. Juggling school with the acting is hard, but you know, what can you do?

The actors I admire are character actors.

Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

I would like to see fewer actors modeling, or if they're going to model to the extent that they are modeling, then I think that models should be actors.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who... think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors... understand that that's part of the craft.

I didn't want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor. Because acting is what I fell in love with, and acting is what is still challenging for me.

I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.

Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.

It was nice to have a break from acting - there's a lot more to life than acting. And that's important - to be a good actor, you have to know that and to live that.

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.

After 'Njandukalude...' I had gone for an acting course in Mumbai as I felt the need to improve my acting skills.

I think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.

There are some actors who can only play themselves, but good actors must really be separated from the people they play.

Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.

For me, actors have to have a character, an aura, body language. They're not models. They used to call actors models. But I want them to participate in the film.

I started studying acting, got commercials, and here we are 100 years later. I'm acting and writing and I have a pool and a dog.

I had always seen myself doing theatre, as I don't come from an acting background, so that was my first way into acting, I suppose.

I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts.

When you work in film, you have to be pretty fluent in explaining your vision, especially when speaking to actors, and I found speaking to actors to be so challenging and intimidating on set.

Actors are almost conditioned to get their director's approval. 'I just did my song and dance, boss. What did you think?' Actors are infantilized so much.

I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors.

I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.

I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

I think actors like to be directed. Actors like to know where they're headed and what they want, so I'm very encouraging.

I want people to see my heart, what I feel - not as one of America's best black actors but as one of the best actors.

I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

I could live without acting.... Acting is a gift I've received. And I'm grateful for it and I enjoy it. But it's not the main point of my life. It never was.

When my films didn't work, I wondered what was wrong in my acting graph, and then I realised the dedication I had for music, I didn't have the same for acting.

One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me. The friends I hang out with, we create our own work rather than complain about acting.

Acting is seductive. It looks so much fun. I did dally with other things. I did pupillage in a law firm, but I didn't like the look of how many files the lawyer I was working with had to take home every night. It looked like a hideous amount of work, when actors were having nice lunches and discussing books.

I did 'Dirty Picture' when I was only 24 years old. From there on, I kept on acting and learning about acting.

'Mercury' is one of the most challenging projects I have worked on. From the nuances of the actors' expressions to the minute technicals of the movie, everything needed to be monitored and looked into. The actors were required to emote purely with their face.

I think there were bad actors in the government and bad actors in the finance, mortgage, markets industries that need to be called out and held accountable.

The thing is, with 'This Is England', you're always thinking as yourself. You're acting on an instinct. You're acting on what you've heard, what you've been told, and what's happened beforehand.

Acting is strenuous, both physically and mentally. But if you are passionate about it, nothing can be more exciting than acting.

I'm really loving acting. I want this as a career. I'll still write music and collaborate with people, but I'm focused on the acting path.

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.

It's notoriously difficult to get actors to go on record speaking about other actors. Such requests are usually met with terse replies from publicists explaining that their clients are on set and too busy to reply.

You work with every actor differently. It's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other children, you back off of a little bit and let them be. It's the same way with actors. Some actors need a lot of hand holding. Other actors like to be let be, and you let them go.

People keep asking me where I learnt acting. And I say that there is no special school for acting or drama where you can go and learn.

I think many young actors want to be daring. They want to surprise their fellow actors as well as their audiences.

Anything dark and emotionally complex, I'll do it. You're acting, but when you take an acting role, you have to live it. You're living the life of that person.

I kind of hid acting from my dad because I knew what he thought about acting at the time. His advice was "Don't do it," basically.

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.

I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors understand that that's part of the craft.